Barn-door fastener



(No Model.) 1

J. S. TROUT.

BARN DOOR FASTENBR.

No.347,'748; PatentedAug.fl7,-1886 Iii; '11

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" UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOBS. TBOUT,QF LANDISVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

BARN-DOOR FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 347,748, dated August17, 1886.

Application filed May 15, 1886.

and along their edge to hold them firmly together, and also to dispensewith the easilybroken swinging pole often used on barnd oors. I attainthese objects by the construct on illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings in which- Figure 1 represents the interior of a portion of abarn adjacent to its doors and the latter closed and fastened togetherin accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of thesame, showing the doors closed, but unfastened in full lines, and alsofastened by the retaining pole and hook, shown in dotted lines.

In said drawings, A represents a portion of the frame of a barn formingthe door-opening thereof. To the uprights of said frame are hinged at b,the doors B and B ,constructed, as usual, of boards secured together bybattens b and b to which the hinges bare preferably secured. They alsohave the diagonal braces b, to prevent sagging of said doors.

To secure the doors together and to the frame of the barn, apole,'C,preferably square in cross-seotion,is connected with the door B byhinges 0, preferably secured to the battens b of said door, so that saidpole can be swung against the door B to secure the whole edges of thedoors together, as shown in Fig. 1 and in dotted lines in Fig. 2, orswung back against its supporting-door B, as shown in full lines inother suitable lock.

Serial No. 202,297. (No model.)

Fig. 2, when the doors are to be opened. When the pole is swungoutwardlyto secure the doors together, the upper end of said pole bears against asmall block, a, pendent from the upper beam of the door frame, and thelower end of the pole bears against a similar block, a, projecting fromthe sill of the barn or from the ground upon which it is built.

In place of the latter block,a", the lower end of the pole may carry avertically-sliding bolt to enter a perforationin the sill, and said boltmay be the only fastening needed to retain the door B or both doorsclosed; but I prefer to use a hook, d, pivoted to a staple driven 'inthe side of the pole and having its hooked end engaging with anotherstaple, e, driven in the doors B. In place of the hook d a hasp may beused with a padlock or any If it is desired to form a close jointbetween thedoors, a vertical cleat, as I), may be secured along the edgeof the door B, on the outside thereof.

Having now fully described my invention, I claim 1. In combination witha door-frame having a pendent stop, a, and a door, B the door B,-

having hinged thereto the vertical pole G, the upper end of which isadapted to engage with the stop a and to bear against the vertical edgeof the door B", substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. The combination of the door-frame having stops at the top and bottom,and the door B having staple c, with the door B, having hinged theretothe vertical pole O, and the hook (I, pivoted to said pole,substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAG. S. TROUT.

Witnesses: I

bro. 0. Lone, CHAS. E. Lone.

